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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 2337, 1 September 1875, Page 2

Disgraceful Act. — A correspondent writing to an Auckland paper says — " On tho afternoon of Sunday last I was taking a walk with my two little boys, around Mouut Eden gaol, when at the upper end of the wall, near the mountain, on a little green mound, one of my boys cries out to me, saying, • ' Oh, father, father, see the dog is eating. a man's leg." I cried out, " Where ?" when the boy pointed to this little green mound. I looked, and to my horror and surprise I saw the dog tearing tbo leg of a full grown man. I drove the dog away, aud put the leg back again into tho little hole, about five inches deep and about two feel long, with a little green sod over it. The leg appeared to bo recently amputated, a little below tho knee. 1 made inquires from some of tho people living about that neighbor? hood, and I learned that some unfortunate prisoner, a few days before, got his leg broken while working in the quany. Dr. Philson had to amputate the leg. Moody and Sankey and the Qpera. — A London court has decided that Messrs, Moody and Sankey have damaged a Beatholder of her Majesty's Opera House to tho extent of one shilling by holding prayer ' meetings therein. The plaintiff insisted that he had a right to be provided with a genuine article of Italian Opera, and that to offer him instead tho preaching of Moody and tho siuging of Saukey was a gross outrage, Techuically tho man appears to have been right, since he gains his case; but ho hag won a rather peculiar reputation as a man who considers that religion defiles aa opera house; and his enforcement of hjs owu legal rights, iv defiauco of the wishes and prejudices of the community, will be comnjonly thought to be the act of a very selfish and uncourtequs person,